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The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689)

A Breakdown of the Main Rules

The Outbox Pattern with DynamoDB

Reliable Event Publishing in Distributed Systems

Apache ZooKeeper and Its Importance for Distributed Databases

The Whole Machine: A FastAPI RAG Service, End to End

Part 5 of a 5-part series building a production-shaped RAG API on FastAPI + MongoDB Atlas

One Database, Two Search Engines: MongoDB Atlas Search for RAG

Part 4 of a 5-part series building a production-shaped RAG API on FastAPI + MongoDB Atlas

Two-Phase Retrieval: Hybrid Search with `$rankFusion` and Cross-Encoder Reranking

Part 3 of a 5-part series building a production-shaped RAG API on FastAPI + MongoDB Atlas

From Document to Vector: Chunking, Upsert, and Vector Search

Part 2 of a 5-part series building a production-shaped RAG API on FastAPI + MongoDB Atlas.

One Client, Two Backends

OpenAI Embeddings and Chat (and Swapping in Ollama)